On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 17:04 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > Does anybody have any experience with running a MythTV backend > on a non-dedicated machine (a machine that's also used for > software development, web-browsing, e-mail, etc.)? > > All of the info I find about "split" MythTV systems implies > that the backend is a dedicated MythTV server. It seems like a > waste to have both a backend server and my normal "desktop" > machine running all the time -- both 99% idle. > > My tuner is a network-attached HDHR, so the backend isn't doing > any real-time encoding. All it needs to to is shovel bytes > between the network interface and the disk. I do plan on > having a dedicated drive for MythTV recordings. >
My MythTV setup has its own external 1TB drive for recordings, but it runs on my desktop machine. My tuner is a Hauppage WinTV PVR-250. Since I got the external drive for myth I can run other programs on the machine at the same time that Myth is recording, and it doesn't lose information in the recordings anymore. Recordings used to be skippy before I got the external drive, but now it works great. What did you want to know?
